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I think you're confused...
To my knowledge states want everyone to agree not to do it. But don't want to stop doing it and be different to the states that do.
It doesn't sound like a big deal, but for reasons that should be really apparent right now. We shouldn't want a big federal government deciding all this shit.
If Idaho doesn't want to do daylight savings time, or wants to always do it. Or switch back every third Tuesday of every other month...
That's up to Idaho.
People love to talk about how the Senate favors small states, but no one wants to talk about the reason why it never mattered, was the federal government as a whole had very little power at first.
But a strong central government is easier for oligarchs to control, so for all the reasons we don't want one, we've ended up with one.
It doesn't make sense to keep putting all the power into something a minority of American have oversized say in.
Tldr:
There's no reason states can't just do it.
And Indiana already does ignore it.
Indiana ignores what? I’ve lived in Indiana and still have family in Indiana and they do switch twice a year. There is a small part of Indiana that is stuck, but for most, it is EST that acknowledges DST.
So does Arizona
And those 2 states were grandfathered in when Congressional approval became a thing.